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| Ali Pasha�s Childhood |
| In the village of Tepelena, Albania, the guns and rifles shots were heard far of way. They were the shots of happiness, and Veli Pasha became father again. �It�s boy. Its boy Veli Pasha,� said the servants in the palace. He named his son Ali. The mother, Hanka, was holding her son, and she was very happy. She only said, �Mash-Allah, Mash-Allah, Mash-Allah.� Veli Pasha called the gypsy man to run his drum. The imam came to pray the name prayer, and they all had a happy supper. Ali Hysein was born in 1743 in the village of Tepelena, Albania. No one exactly could remember in which month he was born. Some people said that he was born during a cold winter day, and some said that he was born during a shiny spring day. It was a big happiness for the parents, Hanka and Veli. The most eminent pasha in the entire Turkish Ottoman Empire was born. |
| Ali grew up with his sister, Shahinshah, who was younger than him. They were raised full of happiness and surrounded with a lot of toys. They played enough in their unlimited games. As a child, Ali was very lively and restless trouble maker in his childhood world. When his father was present, Ali had no barriers in enjoyment with no limits in his playground. He could do anything that his heart wanted. His father, Veli Pasha, was having equal behavior with all his children, and he loved them equally. Veli Pasha never forced his children to do something that they did not want to do, and he never raised hands on them. The only barrier to his playing was the mother, Hanka. Hanka forced her son, Ali, and her daughter, Shahinsha to learn reading and writing, and she made possible for her children to get the best education in that time. The mother, Hanka, was the one who disturbed and disrupted their restless games, and she compelled them to learn. |
| Ali was only twelve and Shahinsha was only ten, when Veli Pasha died. The children had enough time to play and love their father, Veli. Now, Ali and his sister were with their mother, Hanka, who was of strong moral and tough character. The mother was young, and she had to experience the biggest bitter pain in her life. She was a widow with two children. Hanka and the widow of Islam Bey did not agree in many things. While the children were playing, they were fighting and biting each other. There were ten children and three widow women in one house. The fight was transferred to grown up ladies. Ali and his sister were the youngest children, and they were mostly bitten. They were protected only from their mother, Hanka. They became unloving children in the castle. The pressure mounted. After all the bitter fights and disagreements, Hanka decided to move out from the castle. She returned in her village, Karnian. The Islam�s widow continued with her propaganda against Hanka. The local people and the Beys, Gypsy or Greek terrorists, and others were enjoying the cold war between the three widow women. The widow of Islam Bey sided with the other widow of Veli Pasha, and she supporting her sons to heritage and share the title of Pasha with her sons. Hanka was tired of all of this, and she continued to live in her village of Karnian. |
| The French and Gypsy or Greek terrorists poisoned the four children of Veli Pasha. All the four children of Veli Pasha died, and the palace where they lived was put on fire. The Islam�s widow said that Hanka had killed the four children, and she blamed Hanka for organizing all the robbery and other criminal behavior. The people of the area believed that Hanka really did this. Hanka was young and very beautiful women. Many people wanted her, and she had numerous offers of marriage. For Hanka, only Veli remained in her heart and remained a widow woman until she died. The gossiping and other behaviors led to disregard of Hanka. Hanka was captured by the people of the village of Hormova, and she was mistreated, maltreated, raped, and she was bitten. She was sworn never to forgive and to revenge to people of Hormova. She did not live enough to see the revenge, but she expressed in it the wishes that Ali and Shahinshah should at the earliest possible moment do their best to exterminate the people of Gardhiqi and Hormova, and added a curse in this if they should fail her in this. She had also ordered to make a pilgrim to Mecca for the repose of her soul. (William Plomer, pg 46). Later, Ali Pasha not only revenged, but he massacred the people of the village of Hormova and Gardhiqi. Ali later days said, �I owe everything to her. Twice she gave me my life, as a man and as a ruler. She kindled my imagination and showed me my destiny.� Ali had very happy childhood while his father was alive. After the death of his father, Ali witnessed and experienced not only bitterness and sorrows, but an evil. This bitter childhood taught Ali, what is the good and what an evil is. |
| By: S.K.-Shkupjani June 23, 2002 Revised: March 24, 2006 Edited by: Q.K. From Shkupi (Skopje) |
| This article is dedicated in remembrance to Dr. Astridhis Kolia, an Arvanitis or Albanian, of Epirus, who got mysteriously murdered by the Greek secret Police. When Dr. Astridhis Kolia openly declared himself as an Albania, he was murdered by Greek government. |
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